Ramón Arroyo Prieto (born 1971) is a Basque athlete, diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, with an extraordinary story of personal improvement, which was made into a film in 2016.
[1] After four years of denial, however, the birth of his first son helped him to see reality in a different way, when he decided to run his first 100 meters, from home to the subway station, which ended up being the catalyst for him to start training in order to be able to carry out various personal challenges in the world of athletics.
[1][3] Encouraged by his brother-in-law, he ran in his first popular race and was immediately "hooked"; however, due to his physical limitations, he could not run faster, so he evolved towards the long distance.
[1] In 2016, three years after overcoming that challenge, his story of personal improvement inspired the film "100 Meters", directed by Marcel Barrena and starring Dani Rovira, Alexandra Jiménez, and Karra Elejalde, with the aim of normalizing this degenerative disease.
[1][2] He participated in the entire process and his opinion, which was mostly to escape any sweetened version of his story, was taken into account, explaining to Dani what his limp was like.